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Fitness Classes at NMU
Participants must check in at PEIF Rec Center/Fit Zone front desk to receive a group exercise pass. All participants must have membership participate. Participants should bring their own equipment (mats/water bottles/blocks/bands) to some classes.
All NMU Sports Complex schedules are subject to change without notification. Every effort will be made to post changes and cancelations of classes on this Web page and outside the studio 24 hours in advance. Questions about fitness and wellness programs can be emailed to recsport@nmu.edu or you can call 906-227-2519.
Current Drop In Group Exercise Classes
Current and Upcoming Fitness Classes
Reserve your spot in fitness classes by clicking here
Summer Fitness Session: May 13-June 21, 2024
| Time | Class | Location | Instructor | |
| Monday | 7:30am-8:30am | Yoga Flow | PEIF Fitness Studio | Lynne M. |
| 5:00pm-5:50pm | HIIT | PEIF Fitness Studio | Kennedy | |
| 6:00pm-6:50pm | Mindful Movement Yoga | PEIF Fitness Studio | Grace | |
| Tuesday | 8:00am-8:50am | Power Mixer | PEIF Fitness Studio | Charise |
| 5:30pm-6:20pm | Cycle & Strength | PEIF Fitness Studio | Gaelle | |
| Wednesday | 5:00pm-5:50pm | HIIT | PEIF Fitness Studio | Kennedy |
| 6:30pm-7:30pm | Zumba | PEIF Fitness Studio | Mark | |
| Thursday | 7:30am-8:30am | Yoga Flow | PEIF Fitness Studio | Lynne M. |
| 4:30pm-5:20pm | Pilates | PEIF Fitness Studio | Charise | |
| 5:30pm-6:20pm | Cycle & Strength | PEIF Fitness Studio | Gaelle |
Class Descriptions
Zumba: Zumba® takes the "work" out of workout, by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style, calorie-burning dance fitness party. Once the Latin and World rhythms take over, you'll see why Fitness classes are often called exercise in disguise. Super effective? Check. Super fun? Check and check.
Barre: The perfect blend of grace and strength with a full body focus. This class fuses ballet inspired movements, pilates techniques and sculpt training through small deliberate movements, light weights and high repetition. You will enhance core stability improve muscle endurance and boost flexibility. Designed for all fitness levels this low impact workout guarantees an energizing session that will leave you feeling impowered and invigorated. Join a Barre class for a balanced and effective exercise experience that will elevate your fitness journey.
Core and More: 50 Minute class that gets it all done! Targets your "POWERHOUSE". Your core will be the focus incorporating traditional core exercises, balance and low impact dynamic movements. Great fun and great music. This class is for anyone and everyone. THIS is the class to start your week!!
Cycle & Strength: A high energy, beat bumping cardio ride for 45 minutes with 15 minutes of weights for strength.
Freeform Flow Power Yoga: Invites you to move with intuition, creating a personalized journey on your mat. Embrace the freedom to explore various poses, transitions, and modifications, empowering you to tailor the practice to your unique needs. Connect breath with movement as you build strength, flexibility, and a sense of inner freedom in this energetic vinyasa flow. Join us for Freeform Flow Power Yoga and unleash your body's natural rhythm in this empowering and liberating class.
Hatha yoga: This class is a slower paced class where we explore all yoga asanas while connecting each breath with a movement. This class will help increase balance, strength and clarity and flexibility throughout the body. We will explore breathwork, seated and standing poses as well as a longer savasana towards the end.
HIIT: "Need a change of pace? Join Kennedy for a class! HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training), is a great way to change it up while having fun. All fitness levels welcome, it can be modified for beginners. This group fitness class will include different aerobic movements and strength training exercises. This is a high intensity for the majority of the class to increase the heart rate, but also will end with lower intensity movement. This class will be uplifting, with motivating music, and a positive atmosphere. "
Morning Mixer: Strength and Pilates, with a touch of movement, including compound exercises to maximize your efforts all done in 50 minutes. Great music to motivate and drive you to your personal best. All levels of fitness are welcome. This class will use weights, balls, bands, gliders, and body weight.
Morning Yoga Flow: Start your day off with this mindful morning practice where you have space to rejuvenate, awaken and nurture your body and mind! You can expect guided meditations, breathwork and a mix of dynamic flow as well as still yoga postures. In this class you can tune into your body and heart space with some refreshing and meditative yoga practices.
Mindful Movement Yoga: Mindful Movement is a functional and sustainable approach to yoga, integrating mobility, strengthening, and restorative practices. This is a great class to explore yoga in a new and accessible way that is based on anatomically sustainable movements. Class looks slightly different every week as the focus shifts, so come with an open mind and heart! No experience is needed, everyone is welcome
Yoga Flow: This class incorporates basic yoga and tai chi moves and is set to awesome music! Great stretching and balance round out a perfect 50 minute workout to get your energy flowing. A smile during this class is a requirement! No equipment needed.
Pilates: A 50 minute Pilates class using calm modern music. This class incorporates Pilates exercises allowing you to work on flexibility and strengthen your abs and back muscles for functional daily activities such as hiking, horseback riding, golf, tennis, water activities and just life in general. Your posture will improve along with your muscle-mind awareness.
Power 50:Strength training class that works all your muscle group using a variety of weights and resistance in 50 minutes. Class is set to fantastic music to PUSH YOU AND PUMP YOU UP. All levels of fitness experience are welcome, no experience with weight training required.
Restorative Yoga: Join Grace for an hour of restorative yoga to help encourage physical, emotional, and mental relaxation. In class, we will be holding passive poses for longer periods to focus on deepening, breathwork, and stillness. Highly encouraged to bring any extra items of comfort such as eye pillows, blankets, journals, tea, (etc.)
Power Yoga/Vinyasa: This yoga class is designed to strengthen relax and restore you. Blending power yoga, a strong yet accessible style of yoga that focuses on connecting breath with movement while building strength in the body along with Yin Yoga, a slower and cooler floor based practice where postures are held between 1-3 minutes to target the deeper connective tissues and joints within the body. Class will begin with a creative power/vinyasa practice to warm up and energize the body and end with a yin/restorative yoga practice to restore the body and calm the mind.
SHiNE Dance Fitness™ brings original routines to life using hit music and choreography for all-abilities. Rooted in jazz, ballet, and hip-hop, this workout gives you a creative outlet to escape from daily stress. Each class includes the perfect balance of high cardio and toning to ensure you receive a full-body workout with real results. SHiNE is a mood-lifting experience that leaves you feeling capable, confident, and connected to a supportive community.
Warming Vinyasa Flow: A faster paced class that will invite warmth, strength and power in the body and mind while connecting each breath or “pranayama” to fluid movement or “asana” . In this class you will explore the fundamentals of yoga poses, traditional yogi wisdom, breathwork. Come explore the capacity and creativity of your heart and body!
Fitness Instructors
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Mark
I've participated in group fitness most of my life – athletics, military training, and most recently, drop-in classes. When I maintain my physical health, my wellness in other dimensions (social, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and so on) also improves. Group fitness provides the accountability, the variety of routines, the social connection, the encouragement, and the fun that I need to keep showing up, to push myself further, and to reach new goals. I love helping others experience these things by teaching Zumba classes and am having more fun all the time! I’m licensed to teach Zumba and STRONG by Zumba and have a group exercise certification through the American Council on Exercise.
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Amanda
Amanda (E-RYT 200) is a sensitive and empathic teacher who utilizes intuition to tap into what she believes people need during a yoga class. Trained in Baron Baptise Power Yoga, with additional certifications in Yin and Yoga Body Bootcamp, her number one goal in teaching is to make her students feel emotionally and physically safe. She strives to make the room warm and inviting and enjoys using fun and engaging music to further deepen the experience of the practice.
Amanda enjoys teaching vinyasa sequences that focus on connecting breath to movement while also incorporating power based movements that strengthen the core, legs, and arms. For slower and cooler Yin- based classes, Amanda enjoys cultivating a space that allows for meditation and deep contemplation. In her own practice, she finds inspiration in arm balances and inversions and enjoys sharing these empowering poses with her students. She believes that yoga has the power to heal us from the inside out by offering community, connection, and balance for both the body and mind.
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Charise
Charise has been on a fitness journey for, well let's say more than a decade or two. She enjoys family, travel, adventures, fishing and the outdoors. She is certified in Pilates, Core and Strength Training. She has group fitness training and a special interest in HIIT programs. Her instructional philosophy is CCC: choices, chances, changes: you make a CHOICE to take a CHANCE and your life WILL CHANGE.
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Gaelle
I am studying Exercise Science here at NMU and have been instructing group cycling for the past three years at a gym called "Get Some Fitness" near Detroit as well as at the PEIF for the past two years. I am so excited to be apart of the team and motivate people into amazing shape.
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Lynne
Lynne has been teaching aerobics and group fitness classes for over 30 years. She is able to teach a variety of classes including step, strength and resistance training, and full body workouts that encompass your mind and body. Her favorite thing about fitness is learning new techniques to not only enhance my personal teaching experience, but yours as well. I also love meeting new people, so I’m looking forward to seeing you in my class! It’s good to have fun while you’re getting fit!
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Grace
Grace received her 200-hour yoga certification in vinyasa from Sacred Moon School of Yoga in 2021, and her 300-hour certification in sustainable yoga from Heart & Bones Modern Yoga Teacher Training in 2024. Grace believes in teaching a practice that supports not only your physical well-being but also your mental well-being. She teaches through a social justice perspective as a way of supporting all people to feel encouraged and welcome in her classes in the hopes of breaking down yoga stereotypes. She is passionate about living her yoga on and off the mat and educating her students about all 8 limbs of yoga!
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Ellie
Ellie has received her 200 registered yoga teacher certification from Vida Asana School of Yoga in Costa Rica during May of 2023. Her yoga journey began while searching for a hopeful pathway out of the struggles of anxiety and a search for something bigger than herself. She is now teaching in hopes to invite a similar space for her students to begin their healing journey. Ellie believes that yoga can bring immense inner healing to our bodies and minds and you can expect to embark on this journey in her classes. By always connecting to her intuitive heart space and empathy, this helps her connect with her students and help deepen their yoga practice. She has the intention of always opening her yoga classes to be a safe, fun, creative, and intuitive place for all of her students.
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Lynne L.
I am a librarian and a passionate fitness enthusiast, with over five years of barre practice under my belt. My love for this form of exercise only deepens with each class I participate in. Upon moving to Marquette, I was disheartened to discover that there were no studios in town offering barre classes, a situation exacerbated by the challenges posed by Covid. This fueled my determination to become certified and bring this invigorating practice to our community. Now, armed with my certification, I am eager to embark on this journey of leading group fitness sessions. I warmly invite you to join a class and share in my enthusiasm!
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Rhonda J
It is my passtion to encourage and empower students to love the skin they are in and connect with each other. As a certified instructor in SHINE and Jazzercise, I am hoping to help students to take their fitness level up a notch in a fun and supporting environment.
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Kennedy
Kennedy is an Upper Peninsula Native, and currently finishing her last semester at Northern Michigan University. She is studying Applied Exercise Science and Health, with a concentration in community health.
Kennedy is passionate about fitness, and all aspects of health. She has done different group fitness classes and is excited that this is her first opportunity to instruct group fitness classes. She is very excited to be able to motivate others to move their bodies while also having fun! Her classes will be an uplifting and positive space!